FASTER, PLEASE: Biotech Makes Personalized Cancer Vaccines Using Tumor Samples.

READER BOOK RECOMMENDATION: Sarah Hoyt recommends Dave Freer’s Stardogs. Can’t think of a better source.

THE AHISTORICAL OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: Remember When Republican President FDR Commemorated the 1963 Moon Landing by Declaring ‘Peace In Our Time?’

NEWS YOU CAN USE: 25 Skills Every Dad Should Teach His Kids.

DAVID STEINBERG: Anatomy of Victory: Why No One Is Getting Brat’s Story Exactly Right Yet. “The cameras were already there, Brat just had to show up to get his first national attention, for free. Without spending a penny, Brat convinced the 7th District that Cantor was a liar.” A tactic worthy of Andrew Breitbart.

Related: Eric Cantor to step down as majority leader at end of July.

A SMALL STEP FOR FREEDOM: FDA backs down on wood aging of cheese. “There is a less optimistic version, however. It happens that a large number of editors, commentators, and others among the chattering classes are both personally interested in the availability of fine cheese and familiar enough with the process by which it is made to be un-cowed by claims of superior agency expertise. That might also be true of a few other issues here and there — cottage food sold at farmer’s markets, artisanal brewing practices — but it’s inevitably not going to be true of hundreds of other issues that arise under the new Food Safety Modernization Act. In a similar way, the outcry against CPSIA, the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, rose to a politically effective level only on a selected few issues (publishers and libraries got a fix so that older children’s books would not have to be trashed; youth motorsports eventually obtained an exemption, and so forth) but large numbers of smaller children’s products and specialties whose makers had less of a political voice simply disappeared.”

That’s how regulation works.

WELL, TO BE FAIR, NEITHER CAN ANYONE ELSE: Hillary Can’t Name Top Accomplishment As Secretary of State.

IT’S FUNNY THAT THE GUN-CONTROL FOLKS CAN’T SELL THEIR PROGRAM WITHOUT, YOU KNOW, LYING: “In other words, this list was compiled to give the public an exaggerated impression of how many school shootings have taken place.”

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: “I had a sexual relationship with a dolphin.” Okay, technically it was in the 20th Century. It’s the going on and on about it that’s so 21st century.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 398.

MORE EVIDENCE THAT SUING UNIVERSITIES CAN BE LUCRATIVE: Judge rules UNCW must pay professor $700,000 for legal fees. “The University of North Carolina Wilmington has to pay more than $700,000 in legal fees in a civil suit involving one of its own professors, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. . . . Adams, who declined comment when reached by phone Tuesday, accused the university of religious- and speech-based discrimination when he was not promoted to full professor in 2006. A Christian, Adams was open about his views in print and on radio and television programs.”

Lots of hungry lawyers out there, and lots of university administrators who think the law doesn’t apply to them. A recipe for riches!

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Megan McArdle On Student Loan Bailouts:

How could I be against helping these students, groaning as they are under the weight of student loans? I’m so glad you asked.

Before we go any further, however, let me establish my bona fides on huge student loans. I am familiar with the problem. Intimately familiar. Almost-six-figures-worth-of-student-loan-debt-on-a-$40,000-a-year-salary familiar. Which is to say, I lived in a subterranean 435-square-foot apartment for years, eating ramen and Cheez Doodles and heartily regretting my decisions regarding education loans. Oh, and I was 30, not 22. This is what happens if you get an MBA expecting to use it to do something lucrative, such as management consulting, and instead use it to do something fun, such as journalism. I am now happily debt-free, but every check written to clear those loans is seared — seared! — into my memory. . . .

It’s not that the horror stories about people with low earnings and huge debts are imaginary — I have not only read those stories, but have also been one of them. However, that group is relatively small. And in order to give them an extra break on their payments, the president and Elizabeth Warren are proposing that we should also give a whole lot of money to folks who don’t really need it. That’s bad public policy; moreover, it’s not particularly progressive public policy.

That said, I do think we should do something to help people who are genuinely stuck with debt that they will never realistically be able to pay. We should end the exemption of student loans from bankruptcy so that anyone who is overwhelmed by debt can go to court and get a genuinely fresh start. The special treatment of student loans is an outrageous bit of self-dealing by the government, which appears to be fine with debt slavery as long as Uncle Sam gets to be the master. It should stop.

Yes, and schools should be on the hook for some of the discharged debt.

SEX, DOLLAR BILLS, and the Venezuelan black market. Socialism always starts with the same promises, and ends with the same failures. And yet it’s always presented as something shiny and new!

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Also, deals on music.

NOW ON YOUTUBE: InstaVision: I talk with Elizabeth Price Foley about the progressive campaign for Supreme Court term limits.

Her new book, The Tea Party: Three Principles, seems particularly relevant today. Eric Cantor may wish he had read it. . . .

MICKEY KAUS: Notes On Cantormageddon. “The main issue in the race was immigration. It’s what Brat emphasized, and what his supporters in the right wing media (Laura Ingraham, Ann Coulter, Mark Levin) emphasized. It’s the charge Cantor defended against—by conceding the issue and posing as a staunch amnesty opponent. . . . More generally, you’ll hear that Cantor’s loss kills the possibility of amnesty this term. But amnesty was already dead. It’s been killed about 6 times. It’s a zombie. Maybe the 7th will do the job. But don’t expect the lobbyists who back it to give up. If they give up, their corporate clients might rethink their quest for an inexpensive immigrant work force and stop paying them. Mark Zuckerberg’s ex-roommate might have to look for a job.”

My take: Cantor got cocky. Don’t get cocky.

JAMES TARANTO: Poor Mrs. Clinton: Why she and her husband are an expensive pair of speakers.

Hillary Clinton is making the rounds promoting her new book, or, as our colleague Bret Stephens describes it, her “artifact containing printed words.” In an interview that aired last night, ABC’s Diane Sawyer “wondered if Americans would understand why [Mrs.] Clinton needs a speaking fee of $200,000, ‘five times the median income in this country for one speech,’ ” as the Washington Free Beacon reports.

Mrs. Clinton’s reply: “I thought making speeches for money was a much better thing than getting connected with any one group or company as so many people who leave public life do.”

The former first lady pleaded poverty: “We came out of the White House not only dead broke but in debt. . . . We struggled to, you know, piece together the resources for mortgages for houses, for Chelsea’s education, you know, it was not easy. . . . We had to make double the money, because of, obviously, taxes, and then pay off the debts and get us houses and take care of family members.”

There is some truth to this: According to the Associated Press: “[Mrs.] Clinton’s Senate financial disclosure forms, filed for 2000, show assets between $781,000 and almost $1.8 million. . . . The same form, however, showed that the Clintons owed between $2.3 million and $10.6 million in legal bills.”

In response, Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus tells the AP: “Whether she was flat broke or not is not the issue. It’s tone deaf to average people.”

Yet there are some factual problems with Mrs. Clinton’s assertions. National Review’s Andrew Johnson notes a New York Times report from December 2000, more than a month before the end of Mr. Clinton’s term, that Mrs. Clinton had just inked a book contract with an $8 million advance.

Don’t diss her, man. She’s down with the working class.

ROGER KIMBALL: Eric Cantor and the Conventional Wisdom.

From where I sit, the response of “responsible leaders,” i.e., representatives of the convention wisdom, has been mostly confined to what they used to call in the wild West a circling of the wagons. Demonize the bastards. Ostracize ’em. Talk incessantly about “fringe candidates” and “extremists” who cannot win (except they just did), who will upset the status quo, which by an extraordinary coincidence just happens to benefit those registering their “shock,” their having been “stunned,” “staggered,” not to say “utterly dismayed.”

Both parties have been assiduous in demonizing the Tea Party. And they’ve been quite effective in convincing themselves that it was yesterday’s news, that the upsets of 2010 were an anomaly, that business-as-usual (represented by us mature politicians who are already in office) had once again achieved the upper hand. Order, in short, had been restored.

Except that unexpected things like David Brat’s victory, like UKIP’s victory in the European election, keep happening. . . .

Which brings me to the other aspect of the Cantor Conundrum, the Brat Braining: the contention that, in addition to being “staggering,” “stunning,” etc., it is also of vast importance. Is it? In the sense that it (like the European elections of a fortnight ago) bespeaks a profound unease among the electorate with politics (and, nota bene pollsters: politicians) as usual, I’d say, yes, it is important. We’ve been told that the “tea party” is a spent force. The trouble is, the millions of ordinary people who are disgusted with Washington, who fear and loath the the rise of the imperial state with its vast armory of regulation and surveillance, not to mention its untouchable self-enriching nomenklatura — those millions haven’t gotten the memo. They don’t know that their interests and desires are de trop, even though their masters in Washington have done everything possible to reinforce that idea.

Yeah, how’s that working out?

LAWS ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE: Democratic candidate accused of unequal pay demands equal pay. “In a new campaign ad, New Mexico Attorney General Gary King claims he will demand equal pay for women in the state. The thing is, three years ago King was accused of pay discrimination by female lawyers in his office. Not only that, but King’s opponent, Republican Gov. Susana Martinez, signed an equal pay bill into law last year.”

Well, no worse than the Obama White House going on about equal pay while paying women less.

THE STORY KEEPS CHANGING: Obama, not Hagel, responsible for Bergdahl, says White House.

FASTER, PLEASE: Fight ‘superbugs’ by developing targeted weapons.

BERGDAHL FALLOUT: Ted Cruz to Push Moratorium on Guantanamo Transfers.

YOU KNOW WHO’S REALLY BAD FOR GAIA? High-Flying Environmentalists. “A recent study by Stewart Barr, a geographer at the UK’s University of Exeter, found that people who identified as committed environmentalists actually flew more than those who didn’t. Some of these ‘bleeding-heart jet setters’ insisted they’d earned their flights through green behavior at home.”

Indulgences for the well-connected.

ROBOT CARS: A Moral Imperative?

They found that even cars that are not fully autonomous but which automate some of the most dangerous aspects of driving could have as big an effect as seatbelts have had…

They found that lane-departure warning systems would have prevented 30.3 percent of the crashes caused by lane drifting, and 25.8 percent of the injuries. Rear-end and collision warning systems and automatic braking would have prevented only 3.2 percent to 7.7 percent of crashes, but would have reduced their severity. The number of people injured or killed would have declined in the range of 29 to 50 percent, the researchers concluded.

By comparison, seatbelts have reduced injuries and fatalities by about 50 percent, and are considered the most beneficial auto safety measure of all time, Mr. Gabler said.

I drove the Audi A8 TDI, which had those “semiautonomous” features last summer, and found I liked them considerably more than I expected.